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Page 63 - of the temple, ("And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone, made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor ax, nor any tool of iron heard in the house, whilst it was building,")
Page 289 - days, night or day. I also, and my maidens, will fast likewise ; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law : and if I perish, I perish. So Mordecai went his way, and did according
Page 300 - Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he
Page 374 - the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present distress, yet in all time there have been about 100,000 of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard either to the laws of the land, or
Page 193 - upon the cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep ; there shall be a very grievous murrain ;
Page 39 - to devise cunning works ; to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, and to set them.
Page 475 - ways whereby this flying in the air hath been or may be attempted, two of them by the strength of other things, and two of them by our own strength. 1. By spirits or angels; 2. By the help of fowls; 3. By wings fastened immediately to the body; 4. By a flying chariot.
Page 384 - the river ; and the alligators were in such incredible numbers, and so close together from shore to shore, that it would have been easy to have walked across on their heads, had the animals been harmless. What expressions can sufficiently declare the shocking
Page 27 - that he looked upon the independence and uprightness of the judges as essential to the impartial administration of justice—as one of the best securities of the rights and liberties of the
Page 300 - May truly say, here lies an honest man ; Whom heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.